Comments on: “Silicon Alley” is done, but New York is risinghttp://pando.com/2014/07/11/silicon-alley-is-done-but-new-york-is-rising/
speaking truth to the new powerTue, 03 Mar 2015 20:05:19 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: JacobNelsonNYChttp://pando.com/2014/07/11/silicon-alley-is-done-but-new-york-is-rising/#comment-96297
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:29:21 +0000http://pando.com/?p=148089#comment-96297you lost me a little ….. most funded != highest valued
]]>By: spoppehttp://pando.com/2014/07/11/silicon-alley-is-done-but-new-york-is-rising/#comment-94278
Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:34:30 +0000http://pando.com/?p=148089#comment-94278I refer to the NYC area as the Digital Triangle. Union Square, DUMBO and SOHO. Da monies, the coders and the brand and art -savvy creatives. Silicon Valley has the first two.
]]>By: bfeldhttp://pando.com/2014/07/11/silicon-alley-is-done-but-new-york-is-rising/#comment-94170
Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:45:02 +0000http://pando.com/?p=148089#comment-94170The following statement is so true. Shout it from the rooftops.

“I said that was the worst thing I could do for Nashville. I’ve spent years traveling to startup hubs — both aspirational and actual ones — in most states in the US and at least 15 countries around the world. I’ve found an inverse relationship with a place having a Silicon-themed nickname and actually thriving as a startup ecosystem.”

And – the follow up is true also.

In the rare cases where a place that calls itself “Silicon whatever” does tend to produce great startups at a regular pace, something interesting happens. It tends to stop calling itself by that name.

Boulder is such a great example of that. I’ve been stamping out “Silicon Flatirons” since I moved here in the mid-1990s. Now that name is regulated to a great program at CU Boulder (http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/) and I’ve been told that once I give a large enough give to it I can rename it.

The valley is a one-shot event, and dates back to at least when Lee deForest
moved to Palo Alto in 1910. More likely, it dates back to the construction of
El Camino Real, circa 1750.

I regularly have Chinese people ask me how they can built “their own Silicon Valley”.
I tell them that there is only room for one per planet, and they will have to invent
their own major technology. (Nano-tech optical devices looks like a good bet.)

The valley is a one-shot event, and dates back to at least when Lee deForest
moved to Palo Alto in 1910. More likely, it dates back to the construction of
El Camino Real, circa 1750.

I regularly have Chinese people ask me how they can built “their own Silicon Valley”.
I tell them that there is only room for one per planet, and they will have to invent
their own major technology. (Nano-tech optical devices looks like a good bet.)